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The original "Leading Lady", my fatherıs B-24 in WWII. It was but one of many aircraft he went on missions on, but itıs the only one whose picture still survives.
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There's Mose . . . is that a smile and a thumbs up? Captain John Moseley was the intrepid pilot. My father was the radio operator. Believe it or not, I built him too, but he's back there in the Radioman's station where you can't see him.
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Leading Lady flew with both the 790th and the 791st.
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In the 790th the tail was marked with just an H.
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This plastic model is a Monogram 1/48 scale B-24J.
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It's about 27.5 inches from wingtip to wingtip and 17 inches long.
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As the original aircraft was in a natural metal finish, the dilemma was how to make the model look authentic.
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Most metallic paints, spray or brush-on, tend to look fake, because they're basically just a medium with metal granules suspended in it.
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The saying goes in modelling, "If you want it to look like metal, you have to use metal."
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Luckily for modelling, in the 60s someone hit upon the idea of putting an adhesive back on aluminum foil.
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